Article: JAVA JUNCTION; Gamelan music of Indonesia is like a river of sound - and the Schubert Club has its own.(VARIETY)

Sometimes the unlikeliest marriages turn out to be the happiest - which looks to be the case with the union of a Minnesota recital series and a 60-piece, custom-built Indonesian orchestra.

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People don't normally think of the Schubert Club as multicultural. "Venerable" is more like it - founded in 1882, producer of an impeccably tasteful recital series, patrician purveyors of Western masterworks and overseers of an instrument museum heavy on pianos.

Yet there it lies, large enough to fill the stage of O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul: a new, $70,000 Javanese gamelan commissioned by the Schubert Club. Hand-carved wood and polished bronze ...

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